Today ATI Technologies announced new RADEON X800 (R420) architecture and RADEON X800 XT and RADEON X800 PRO video processors. In this article we are going to test them against their primary rival, NV40 from NVIDIA in 25 contemporary gaming benchmarks. Find out who the winner is!

X2: The Treat

In X2: The Threat game the RADEON X800 XT demonstrates another slight lead over NVIDIA’s GeForce 6800 Ultra GPU, however, in low resolutions performance of the both is limited by the central processor. That’s basically why in low resolutions the RADEON X800 PRO goes on par with its higher-end brother, while with the increase of the resolutions, the gap between the performance delivered by the two cards is broadening.

The times of slide-show in the X2: The Threat game are finally over. Both high-end graphics cards from ATI Technologies and NVIDIA bring decent performance even in situation when all eye-candy features are switched on. Results of the RADEON X800 XT and the GeForce 6800 Ultra are practically equal, while the RADEON X800 PRO quite substantially lags behind the leaders.